Archive for February 9th, 2012

We would like to make “the most beautiful building” for the Museo de al Memoria de Andalucía (Andalusia’s Museum of Memory) in Granada. The MA. A museum that wishes to transmit the entire history of Andalusia. As early as Roman times, Strabo described the inhabitants of Andalusia as “the most cultivated of the Iberians, who have laws in verse.”

Located near Aix-en-Provence, in a rural area, this project plays with the typology of agricultural farm houses architecture. The clients’ brief was the refurbishing of this “mas provençal” facing an olive tree field. They were in demand of a strong contemporary element that could bring a totally new identity to the house. The architects therefore proposed to replace the former farmhouse part of the existing construction, which was slightly difficult to adapt because of its minor construction quality and it’s chaotic partition, by a new timber frame structure that will host a spacious living room and the “en suite” main bedroom. The preserved part of the existing construction being dedicated to the children and friend’s rooms.

The restaurant is located on the south-west corner of a office tower in Beijing CBD district. Design started in 2010 and construction was completed in early 2011. It covers a surface of 360 sqm. The space is characterized by the use of two strong walls, which visually define the space organizing the functional program: kitchen, dining areas, bar counter, pizza area, wine cellar and lounge corner.

I aimed to assimilate, because the quiet surroundings . The building filled with soil, and low proportions. Levels in each room is a little lower, the animals like to enter in “nest”. Also the concrete wall is like a bird nest of woven grass. I aimed ” the quiet architecture ” idyllic landscape.

A wall having a flexible form like a curtain creates an atmosphere like “forest” in Ginza, the heart of Tokyo.

A wall create the space that opens to the outside of the store and connects the street with the inside the shop. This high- ceiling space is a entrance hall of this boutique to welcome pedestrians in the street. It also can be communication space such as an event hall, a gallery space or terrace.

The interior is flooded by natural white light through the gently waving “Wall”. Being filled with the play of light, visitors will find a variety of furnishings in this boutique.

This refurbished penthouse is located in a 1970s 16-storey building in Blasco Ibáñez Avenue, Valencia. The project takes the original highly fragmented layout and connects and widens the rooms by modifying the interior architecture through floor-to-ceiling hinged doors and sliding doors hidden in paneled walls.

The site is in a forest surrounded by trees, in the back of the site is that parents have housing. There, it was his son build a house. The aim of privacy and good communication with parents and son family. First, it the floated in the air in the building to maintain the existing garden. Building floating in the air is divided into two wings off, placed in the center of the green alleys. The center array, incorporating the natural curves of the surrounding forest, is linked to my parents house.

The parking garage is located at the University Medical Centre in Ljubljana. The project was commissioned by a company that builds residential and commercial buildings in Slovenia and prepares sites for the Hofer commercial network. A condition of the investor was that a classic HOFER supermarket had to be located on the ground floor in the standard form and dimensions of Hofer shops throughout Europe. The task was a very difficult one for designers, since the structural grid used in HOFER shops do not correspond to the grid required for the rational design of a parking garage.

The idea of the DomoLab emerged in 2007, following the first Batimat trade fair where eleven companies of the Saint-Gobain group were together on the same stand. It springs from a shared wish of the marketing and research department : to use the diversity of skills and the jobs complementarity in order to create a permanent dynamics of innovation for the Group’s
strategy.

For this project, we were commissioned to build a second home for a husband-and-wife couple and their young son. The client requested a simple space that would allow him to take a step back from the daily demands of his busy schedule and help to rejuvenate his body and mind.